Logical Depth
The temporal linearity and arrow of time upon which progressive iterations of information or energy-processing depend, or at least that the procedural operations of which must reflexively imply, finds itself as the template from which all extension and logical depth emanate. Continue reading Logical Depth
Ideological Entropy
Where intellectual or ethical bankruptcy is the pivot upon which any untenable political assertion or associated narrative rests, an overinvestment in faulty reasoning becomes something of an inevitability. Continue reading Ideological Entropy
Manufacturing Loneliness
Psychological deficits and emotional asymmetry may the price (or at least – the cost) of social, economic and cultural continuity. Continue reading Manufacturing Loneliness
Impossible Things
Given sufficient complexity, energy or information flow and time, the logical end-state of any particular process need not itself under analysis appear as though rationally derived or even substantively plausible. Continue reading Impossible Things
Long Days and Short Lives on Planet Earth
The Universe is under absolutely no obligation to be (or become) intelligible and neither, it seems, as incorporate microcosms of whatever all this grand dancing complexity is, are we. Continue reading Long Days and Short Lives on Planet Earth
Will Artificial General Intelligence farm our minds ?
Most narratives of post-AI apocalypse fail to acknowledge that whatever it is that is going on between all of our ears might actually represent a resource or asset of study and creative experimentation for an artificial superintelligence. Continue reading Will Artificial General Intelligence farm our minds ?
The Limits of Automation
If automation is only limited by the boundaries of what we can describe, are we actually capable of describing those entities, processes, objects and systems of non-trivially sophisticated complexity with which we all must eventually and inevitably engage ? Continue reading The Limits of Automation
